Please note this is my first time at fiction writing so I want feedback, good or bad it don’t matter, and because this story was getting damn long its coming in two or maybe even three parts to save your eyes. So of this stuff I don’t know is real but I did it anyway so if you are offended in any way tell me and I will change it.

Captain Master/Dream Squadron

"You have to do better than that Narm, if your going to win" Master taunted Narm as they spared in the gym. "Stop moving around so I can hit you"! Narm shouted. "What am I too fast for you old timer" Master seems to stop moving and wait for Narm to attack him again. Narm throws a punch to the jaw which would have knocked a Wookie down but the punch falls short in front of Master. Narm shouts in pain "OWWWW thanks a lot" Narm nurses his sore hand. Hippie, Mac and a few others try to hide there laughter. "You wanted me to stop moving so I did, and I wanted to get you back for using those skifters each time I play you in Sabaac anyway, now you can either give me your sore hand or you can visit the Bacta Tanks, and we all know how much you love them". Hippie and Mac chuckled in the background. Narm reluctantly gave Master his sore hand. "This is going to hurt some, but better now then no flying for a week or so", Master placed his other hand about an inch above Narm’s and closed his eyes, the air seemed to shimmer in the gap and Narm let out a yelp of pain and pulled away cradling his hand "OW what the hell did you do"? Narm questioned, Master replied "I just saved you 30 minutes in a bacta tank, good as new". Mac walked up to both Narm and Master "Enough of this Kevin wants us in the briefing room in 15 minutes so get moving". "Yes Sir" Master and Narm replied in unison.

"So after our latest patrol in the Taroon system came back half dead we are sending a four craft flight into the sector to see what happened, in this flight I need to send a ranking officer so AD Macintosh has offered to go and I need three more pilots, any volunteers"? Kevin heard a voice in the back "I hope you remember how to fly a fighter Mac"! Most of the Pilots cracked up. "Narm thanks for volunteering, anyone else"? Narm was about to voice an objection when Master spoke up "Yea ill go", "Yea ill go as well" added Hippie. "Ok pilots get to your ships you go right now, Good Luck".

Hyperspace going towards Taroon, Admiral Macintosh fidgeted in the pilots chair of the Modified Tie Interceptor as it was a long Hyperspace jump especially in a cramped cockpit with the flight suit on, so he scanned the radio channels between the other three ships, Narm who was in craft three was trying to teach Hippie who was craft two how to get away with cheating at Sabaac and Master was unusually silent. Mac opened a Radio channel to Master "Your unusually silent Master, what’s up"? It took a moment for Master to reply "Yea something feels……off", "What do you mean, off"? Mac asked "Well I’m not really sure, but onboard the Intruder there was some weird feelings and I wasn’t sure what they were any they are getting stronger as we go towards the Taroon System and to tell you the truth what ever it is, it scares the hell out me with is unusual for someone of my skill". Mac couldn’t help but to laugh it that last comment. Narm cut in on the conversation "Don’t worry Master ill protect you from all the baddies out there, as a matter of fact you guys sit back and watch the Narm do alllllllll the work, Hippie will run if its Ewok’s you can sense, you are just afraid and Mac well I don’t know what your thinking". "Shut the hell up Narm" Hippie said. "Now children don’t fight its time to exit Hyperspace anyway" Mac interrupted before any more words could be exchanged, but Mac was worried bout what Master was sensing, and he wouldn’t be happy till he was safe and sound on the Intruder once more

"Ok boys, we will split up into two groups Hippie go with Master and check out the Asteroid belt at the edge of the system while myself and Narm go and check out the area near Taroon IV", Mac said over the radio, "Roger" Hippie sent back "Lets go Master", "Right with ya boss".

Hippie was worried, he had never seen Master like this, they were good friends and it got him more than slightly worried, Master was normally full of jokes and would never shut up, but he was very silent. "Hippie I’m going to check out that big asteroid over there it seems to have a strange shape like its been carved or something" Master radioed in. "Ok ill go into the field a bit and have a look and scan the area" Hippie replied. Hippie flew into the field and had a look around, it wasn’t to bad in terms of asteroids flying everywhere, a few small ones flew around his craft and Hippie checked his shields to make sure they were still at 100% which they were, not wanting to stay around to much longer Hippie scanned the area which didn’t turn up anything unusual besides a few small blips which were to small for craft so they must have been metallic Asteroids "Anything to report Captain" Hippie spoke to into radio to Master "No but I feel something strange, but I don’t know what it is", Master replied, "Ok anyway lets head back to see what Narm and Mac have found.

As Mac and Narm flew towards Taroon IV Narm asked Mac "Mac any idea what the hell is out here"? "Narm if we knew that do you think they would send us all the way out here, anyway something had to attack those fighters that were out here bout a week ago, they couldn’t just attack them selves". As Mac said that a white blob of well without a better word to describe it shit hits Mac’s canopy and starts to attack it with a mouth like opening. "What the Hell is that"? Mac asked worriedly, Narm replies "I don’t know but its not good what ever the hell it is, and I’m gunna blast it what ever it is"! "Um slight problem its under my shields so you cant hit it with lasers and you don’t happen to have a space suit so unless we can think of something, it doesn’t look good" Mac sent back. "Ask and you shall receive" yelled Hippie over the radio, "Now since there seems to be no way to get it off out here I suggest we go somewhere we can, and because Taroon VI is has no oxygen in the atmosphere we are out of luck" "Nope we aren’t" Master added "Scan area 2.25 and you will see a TransGal Xiytiar-ClassTransport orbiting the Planet" Master waited while they scanned the ship "No lifesigns, breathable air, hull seems intact" Hippie said. "Ok we will land in the hanger get this dam thing off my ship and head home, Got it" Mac Ordered "So you want us to land and rescue your ass O fearless leader" Narm sarcastically said "Yes Narm, unless you want to find your self taking a stroll on a airless planet" Mac snapped.

Once all four ships were safely landed inside the huge hanger on board the Transport they tried there best to get the "creature" off Mac’s ship it was going fairly well but it had a knack for sticking back on after they had got most of it off. Master stopped suddenly and quickly ignited his Lightsabre. The other three pilots turned and looked at Master "What’s wrong"? Mac asked. "I don’t know but I can feel a presence in the ship, you sure your scanners didn’t pick up any life signs"? "Yea positive" Hippie replied "Keep going ill be back" Master said as he jogged off into the passage leading into the unknown. Mac was about to tell him to stay but Master had already gone leaving Hippie, Narm and Mac just wondered what the hell was going on.

Master jogged to where he believed was the bridge until he noticed something on the floor "What the hell is this" Master thought to himself "Blood" Master said outloud But where the hell did it come from Master thought. Master expanded his senses but could only feel a small presence somewhere up ahead so he continued on towards it.

Master reached the bridge and had a look around but could see no one but the presence could still be felt somewhere in the room so Master began checking the logs on the computer, he was about half way done when there was a loud "WATCH OUT" behind him, in one swift motion Master ignited his Lightsabre and cleaved the attacker in two, which happened to be another white blob and stopped less than an inch of cleaving a human female in half as well "Who are you and what is that" Master asked while pointing to the sliced blob and still keeping the saber near her "If you put your saber down ill tell you" She said "Ok but don’t try any thing" Master replied as he shut down his Lightsabre plunging the room into a blackness on lit by a few flickering glowpanels. "Now start from the beginning", "Ok well my name is Kristy Sweet and I am a scientist onboard this ship named the Infedela which is a test ship from Kuat", Master butted in "What exactly are you testing"? Kristy paused for a second "Well have you heard of the Dark Force"? Master answered "Yes, was it not the Katana fleet of Dreadnaughts that disappeared about half a century ago".

"Yes, well after they were found by the New Republic and Grand Admiral Thrawn I and my team were instructed to find out exactly what happened when they disappeared, so we did and we confirmed that a Hive Virus had drove the crew insane and they rigged the ships and fled, just like the story goes which everyone knows. I was ordered up top by someone unknown to do some research into the Hive Virus because the New Republic wanted a sample in the vault on Coruscant so I was sent out here with 20 other scientists to research it and cures for it at least that’s what I thought. The next bit is a bit hazy we had a Sample of the hive virus which was slightly different to the normal strand because it was very contagious and could be contracted in more ways, and apparently one of the test subjects which was a Kretch Insect got into the sample and contracted the virus and in a few hours the insect had bitten some of the crew and all had contracted it driving them insane, in a few hours 90% of the crew was dead and the other 10% was dying so there was nothing we could do", Kristy looked up at Master who had a shocked expression on his face. "So let me get this strait you infected a ship full of people with a Hive Virus"! "Yes" Kristy said as she was about to cry "Oh Shit" Master said. "What the hell is that thing then" Master asked and pointed to the sliced blob once more "That’s is a mutation of a Rock Sucker from Mytus VII (Better known as Stars End), the Virus mutated it so it eats other things, not only rocks" Kristy answerd Master grabbed his Radio "Mac or someone come in" Master waited, "Go ahead Master" Mac answered. "Alright I got some bad news and we need a Evac rite now, so you better have that thing off your ship"! Master said, "No such luck yet Captain it can withstand blasters" Mac radioed back "Stand by, ill be there soon" Master said before closing the connection. "Ok Kristy are you infected with the virus"? It took a moment for her to respond "Um no, I haven’t got it yet", Master thought for a minute "Do you want a way off this ship, but you have to come with us"? "Yea ok I don’t care as long as I can get off this ship" she answered. "Ok then follow me and stay close" Master replied while walking back down the corridor towards the hanger area.

"That’s it I give up, this thing is not coming off" Narm says as he sits down in a huff. "Narm stop whining and come back and help" Hippie said in a frustrated tone "We have to get this thing off of Mac cant fly back to the Intruder", Narm mumbles something about not caring, "What was that Commander, how bout I fly your ship and you stay here" Mac says in a strong tone "Nothing Sir" Narm quickly replied. Master bursts in with someone, "Get out of the way" Master says as he pulls out his Lightsabre and turns a few knobs and ignites it so it comes out in a small thin short blade. Master pushes the blade into the creature which seems to let out a yelp and it falls on the floor dead. "Why didn’t you do that in the first place", Narm asked "You didn’t ask", Master replied "Now this is Kristy, she is a scientist on board this ship and we need to get her off as well as ourselves right now" Kristy runs over to a huge door keys in a number on the keypad and the door opens revealing a Hornet Interceptor. "Can you fly that thing Kristy"? Master asked "Only a little nothing major but I can maneuver it but that’s bout it" Kristy replied "Um Master why are we evacing anyway"? Hippie asked "Ill explain in flight, but time is of the essence", Master said. Mac spoke "Ok here’s the plan, Um….Kristy fly the Hornet out of the hanger into space and stop the engines we will latch your craft to one of ours and fly home, any objections, No good lets go".

In space Kristy’s Hornet Interceptor had just docked with Master’s Tie Interceptor and they had entered Hyperspace heading back to the Intruder, Mac listened to Masters report of what happened in the bridge and was shocked, Hippie and Narm were both silent so Mac asked "Do you know who in the New Republic authorized it"? Kristy answered "No I never found out and never knew why I was doing it" "Oh God, Mac weren’t two of our pilots in this sector about 2 weeks ago and they came back half dead"? Masters asked "Yes that’s right" Mac answered "Are you saying that those pilots contracted the Hive Virus and could have infected the Intruder" Narm Asked "Yea that’s what I think anyway" Master relucktaly said "Son of a Sith" could be heard over the radio from Hippie "Lets just hope we are not to late" Mac added.

End of Part One.